The Savage Nation vs. the Bushbots

www.homestead.com ^ | 7/21/05 | PAUL MULSHINE

[kajingawd]

i too have to agree

[CWOJackson]

"Limbaugh was pretty business savvy. He will tell you when he first started in radio he was trying to attract a crowd. He found that he could do a good job of it with conservative political talk."

Which is why savage had to appeal to someone other then conversatives...that nitch was already taken.

[skip_intro]

As the old saying goes, Savage is one brick short of a full load.

And he's consistently one of the most ignorant men on the radio.

Did anyone hear him say about 25 times or so today that Ramsey Clark was in Jimmy Carter's administration?

Wrongo, Mikey. It was Johnson, not that you'd know, or care, or acknowledge your mistake. You never do.

[SuzyQue]

I agree. Bush squandered 2005. I don't have an explanation for it. I'm hoping that today's speech and the speeches of the last few weeks signal that he's coming out of his fugue and will start being the President.

[durasell]

These morons, these cretins, these cynical, pathological, amoral a-holes have turned political debate in this country into something resembling professional wrestling. We have guys like Savage on one side and a former Saturday Night Live writer on the other. They've taken the debated and distorted the facts and issues so that all you can hear anymore is the distortions.

[HitmanLV]

Yep. And Hendire is a riot, no question! :-)

Sometimes I am too cynical, I admit. I saw a documentary once called 'American Movie' about this independent filmmaker making what appeared to be one of the worst horror movies ever made. Throughout, I was convinced the whole thing had to be a put on. The guy was almost impossibly bad, and his friends/cast were almost like parodies.

It was all true.

Part of this habit of mine, and I freely admit I can be wrong about Savage, is my mentality from being a fan of pro wrestling since age 7 (30+ years). In wrestling, paying fans are derided as 'marks.' Its an old carny word and the definition ranges from 'paying fan' all the way down to 'sucker,' and down below 'idiot.' It's a pervasive mentality in the business. Anyway, wrestlers tend to grow so jaded about things that they come to recognize that everything is a 'work' - that is, a put on, predetermined, etc.

They go too far, but that doesn't make them wrong necessarily any given time. Pro wrestling mentality figures that most boxing events are 'worked,' most football games are 'worked,' many baseball games are 'worked,' etc. It's a funny kind of cynicism, to be sure. But its easier for them to believe that something is a put-on, rather than legit.

It's a mentality I share from time to time, I admit.

[HitmanLV]

I agree and expect Bush to rebound in 2006. No reason he can't.

[skip_intro]

Savage has a Ph.D. from Berkeley in epidemiology, an extremely challenging field.

Yet another lie from Savage, unless it's UC Berkeley that's lying.

They say his degree is in "Ethno Botany" through the Department of Anthropology.

That must have seemed real cool back there in the 60's, but it's a little to hippy-dippy now. Sort of like nameing your kid Goldencloud.

[HitmanLV]

No joke, we were on the same wavelength - I just wrote a short essay on my lifelong love of pro wrestling on this thread, and it was being written while you were writing your post to me.

That's why I consider Savage a 'work,' as wrestlers would say.

And yes, you are correct.

[crowman]

Gad-bleepin-zooks,

Finally someone who sees what's up with all this banter...thanks for the well stated comment....

[COEXERJ145]

Savage is mentally ill: obsessive-compulsive, with bi-polar disorder.

Is that all? LOL!

[durasell]

Red makes green. Savage apparently learned that from the squared circle.

[HitmanLV]

Yep. That's a great slogan, too. When it comes to wrestling, I am OLDSCHOOL! ;-)

[HitmanLV]

And to be fair, "if it bleeds, it leads' is a longtime slogan from the journalism business! :-)

[CWOJackson]

"They say his degree is in "Ethno Botany" through the Department of Anthropology."

I'm sure he did extensive studies on the medicinal property of certain hemp plants.

[listenhillary]

Savage, the Right's Howard Dean

[durasell]

mic'ed Milk Bones under the mat...single edge razor blades between the fingers...

Talk to the typical guy in a bar and he actually believes Al Gore said he invented the internet. Ask him where the internet may have actually come from and he'll say, "AT&T?"

Talk to the liberal and he'll tell you about how the President is now staggering around the White House drunk and abusing drugs because he's seen pictures on DU.

This stuff is no good. It's political dysfunction.

[nicmarlo]

he has sparked a war between the members of his "Savage Nation" (slogan: "Borders, language, culture") and the so-called "Bushbots," that sizable number of gullible Americans who can be convinced that whatever policy Bush adopts is a conservative policy

Bump!

[CWOJackson]

LOL! I never thought of the parallel before but you're right. It would be interesting to see the two of them do a talk show together...three hours of screaming abuse against conservative talk radio hosts and the President...odd how they would be on the same page there.

[HitmanLV]

No argument from me, bub.